Electronic Frontier Foundation The push to minimize the government’s power to track and spy on people with surveillance technology has picked up steam as the Black-led movement against racism and police brutality continues to push …
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WIRED At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple introduced a litany of new security and privacy features that fit into what the company calls its four privacy principles. Today, Google is announcing its own …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation In courts across the country, EFF has been arguing that the police cannot constitutionally require you to unlock your phone or give them your password, and today the Indiana Supreme Court issued …
Bleeping Computer A Thanos ransomware campaign targeting mid-level employees of multiple organizations from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany was met by the victims’ refusal to pay the ransoms demanded to have their data decrypted. Thanos ransomware is …
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The Hacker News Researchers reported on Monday that hackers are now exploiting Google’s Analytics service to stealthily pilfer credit card information from infected e-commerce sites. According to several independent reports from PerimeterX, Kaspersky and Sansec, …
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The Register Automated facial recognition (AFR) use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff. Put simply, connected to …
Mullvad Our Android app is now available through yet another distribution channel: F-Droid. It was the plan all along to offer the Android app via three different distribution channels. It was first made available on …
Electronic Frontier Foundation Regardless of your opinion about Google, their suite of collaborative document editing tools provides a powerful resource in this tumultuous time. Across the country, grassroots groups organizing mutual aid relief work in …
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The Register The Mozilla Foundation has announced it will soon launch its VPN. The organisation’s announcement is rather vague, as it says the product will debut “in the next few weeks” and protect up to …
Bleeping Computer Zoom’s CEO Eric S. Yuan today announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) will be provided to all users (paid and free) after verifying their accounts by providing additional identification info such as their phone number. We …
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Mullvad An independent security audit of the Mullvad VPN app was recently completed. Based on the auditors’ findings, we’ve prioritized our improvements accordingly and released a new beta version for desktop and Android. Here are …
Tor Project There’s a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.4.1-alpha from the download page. Packages should be available over the coming …